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Offline James Morris

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Big fur fabric project for ancient Northern Europe
« on: February 23, 2019, 09:47:01 PM »
Apologies if you’ve seen any of this on Facebook, but I know not everyone’s on there...it took me a few extra days to do this as I need to reformat my photos to put on LAF.

Having sold all my terrain boards last year, I’ve been keen to do a cloth based on fur fabric for gaming in mythological/ Dark Ages Northern Europe.  I wanted something that looked like heath or moorland, without field divisions etc.  After some experiments with various fur fabrics, I came up with the following...here are some work in progress shots.

I bought a 12x5’ piece of olive green Sherpa fleece from eBay (actually I bought 10 m to have plenty for future projects, but that’s another story).  This stuff looks dreadful when it arrives, but really comes to life when given a quick wire brushing. It was then distressed by trimming with scissors and melting with a hot air gun in a well-ventilated area.  I also used the hot air gun to melt a road into the cloth, which I pressed down with sandpaper.

The last few pics show me dry brushing the cloth with a variety of different shades of green acrylic, then gluing some heather clumps in place.
« Last Edit: February 24, 2019, 08:45:59 AM by James Morris »

Offline James Morris

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Re: Big fur fabric project for ancient Northern Europe
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2019, 09:54:34 PM »
Part 2: I covered the road area with a thin layer of brown acrylic sealant (no more than 2-3mm thick), then pressed in some sand for texture.  I also glued areas of sand on to some of the bare parts of the cloth before painting them.

Then the fun really started, as I added grass tufts, flowers and flock to different parts of the cloth.

Offline James Morris

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Re: Big fur fabric project for ancient Northern Europe
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2019, 10:00:22 PM »
Here’s some shots of the finished cloth. Being a bit on the big side, I don’t actually have room to lay this out at my house (apart from the back garden), so apologies for the makeshift nature of some of the shots.

Offline James Morris

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Re: Big fur fabric project for ancient Northern Europe
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2019, 10:02:12 PM »
Final shots: the whole thing folds up into an Ikea bag, and doesn’t seem to suffer too badly for it. Looking forward to getting some games in on this!
« Last Edit: February 23, 2019, 10:04:10 PM by James Morris »

Offline Blackwolf

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Re: Big fur fabric project for ancient Northern Europe
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2019, 10:06:17 PM »
Superb!
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Offline carlos marighela

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Re: Big fur fabric project for ancient Northern Europe
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2019, 10:56:51 PM »
That does indeed look quite superb. Congratulations!
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Re: Big fur fabric project for ancient Northern Europe
« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2019, 11:23:36 PM »
Amazing :-* :-*

Offline Sunjester

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Re: Big fur fabric project for ancient Northern Europe
« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2019, 12:09:30 AM »
That looks utterly brilliant!

Offline Ahistorian

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Re: Big fur fabric project for ancient Northern Europe
« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2019, 12:12:16 AM »
Fantastic stuff James, well done =]

Offline von Lucky

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Re: Big fur fabric project for ancient Northern Europe
« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2019, 01:20:45 AM »
If/when the time comes to make my own - this will be my go to thread. Very impressive.
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Offline Borderguy190

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Re: Big fur fabric project for ancient Northern Europe
« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2019, 03:43:27 AM »
Nicely done. It does capture a wild heath look. Nothing cultivated or manicured!

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Re: Big fur fabric project for ancient Northern Europe
« Reply #11 on: February 24, 2019, 05:22:10 AM »
Nicely done. It does capture a wild heath look. Nothing cultivated or manicured!
I agree. I think the addition of the tufts and bushes really helps create that.

Offline has.been

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Re: Big fur fabric project for ancient Northern Europe
« Reply #12 on: February 24, 2019, 07:15:47 PM »
A most excellent piece of work.
May you have many happy hours playing games on it.

Offline James Morris

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Re: Big fur fabric project for ancient Northern Europe
« Reply #13 on: February 24, 2019, 09:45:19 PM »
A most excellent piece of work.
May you have many happy hours playing games on it.

Cheers all! I very much hope so.

Now I’m working on rebasing my trees to match.

Offline voltan

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Re: Big fur fabric project for ancient Northern Europe
« Reply #14 on: February 24, 2019, 10:17:38 PM »
Lovely job, I'm guessing the sealant you used for the road is flexible to help with the folding up?
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